NIH-funded study uses cutting-edge imaging techniques to reconstruct features underlying learning and memory in the mouse ...

When a prosecutor began chasing an accused serial rapist, she lost her job but unravelled a scandal. Why were the police ...

The English polymath Robert Hooke is known for his investigations into life too small for us to see. But his contributions to ...

What if you could take a picture of every gene inside a living organism—not with light, but with DNA itself? Scientists at ...

Cell-free systems, which can express an easily detectable protein with a DNA or mRNA template without constraints of living ...

New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory ...

In a study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), researchers revealed the structural underpinnings of memory formation across a broad network of neurons in the mouse brain.

Life takes shape with the motion of a single cell. In response to signals from certain proteins and enzymes, a cell can start ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for all vital processes. Using cryo-electron tomography, researchers have now gained insight into the architecture of mitochondria ...

Genetically, however, there are significant differences between the two domains, especially regarding their cell envelopes and ... combined different microscopy techniques to demonstrate that ...

Unfortunately, the mechanics did not hold focus and when the focusing knobs weren’t ... microscope was constructed and set up. Users learned how to create and view slides of their own cheek ...